Elvis Presley in the movie--LOVE ME TENDER
I just watched the move LOVE ME TENDER. I had seen it when I was young, actually when I was first married, but had forgotten a lot of it. A cute story about the first time I saw Elvis on screen in the movie theater: We had a beautiful movie theater downtown, and I hadn't been married very long. My hubby and I decided to go and see Elvis in this new movie. The movie started and the girls in the audience started screaming everytime Elvis wiggled. My hubby said to me, “why do you think those girls are screaming?” He was very annoyed, and I just said, “ I don't know.” hehe It was all I could do to stay still in my seat. I didn't realize this was his movie debut until much later. Elvis is still the KING OF ROCK AND ROLL.
I found this review of the movie. Elvis might not have been the star of the movie, but he stole the show. One thing I didn't like was the fact that he died at the end of this movie.
Elvis Presley made his motion picture debut in the Civil War drama, LOVE ME TENDER. Elvis, however, is not the star of the proceedings: that honor goes jointly to Richard Egan and Debra Paget. The story concerns three brothers--Egan, William Campbell and James Drury--who steal a Union payroll on behalf of the Confederacy, only to discover that the war is over and that they're now technically outlaws. Rather than return the money, the brothers divvy it up amongst themselves. Upon returning home, Egan discovers that his sweetheart (Debra Paget) has married Elvis, his youngest brother. Since. LOVE ME TENDER has been played incessantly on TV since the early 1960s, it is giving away nothing to reveal that the film is one of two in which Elvis Presley's character dies at the end. Naturally, Elvis is afforded plenty of opportunities to sing: the scene in which he launches into an anachronistic hip-swivelling performance at a county fair is one of the high points of mid-1950s.
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